On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 09:15 +0000, LyX Ticket Tracker wrote: > #8577: Additional features manual > ---------------------------+------------------------ > Reporter: john_hudson | Owner: uwestoehr > Type: task | Status: new > Priority: normal | Milestone: 2.1.0 > Component: documentation | Version: 2.1.0svn > Severity: normal | Resolution: > Keywords: | > ---------------------------+------------------------ > > Comment (by spitz): > > Replying to [comment:4 spitz]: > > Actually, I think loading the Lilypond module in this document is a bad > idea, since it will annoy everybody who hasn't lilypond installed (which I > assume are many). Rather than that, I would just refer to Help > > Additional Manuals > LilyPond.
Fine > > The whole section about multiple columns need to be copied from the recent > version in trunk. It was at the time (Scott kindly sent it to me) - but there may have been revisions since then. > > > In undertaking the restructuring, I started from the philosophy set out > > in Chapter 1 and restructured the manual around the order of topics in > > the User's Guide. I have also copied some parts of the User's Guide > > directly into the manual on the assumption that, if these changes are > > acceptable, those parts of the User's Guide can be deleted and replaced > > by a reference to the Additional Features manual. > > Which parts are that? Things like BibTeX that are provided by external programs seemed better all in the Additional features manual. > > > One option would be to wait until 2.1 comes out; I could then go through > > what I have done and add in anything that has been added to the current > > version since I did this one. > > I would not do that. But you could use the forthcoming 2.1 beta and try to > finish the stuff until 2.1 final. Unfortunately, I have only one machine which is my production machine. So I don't want to compromise that by installing a beta version. > > One thing I spotted which needs update are the document class names. The > old scheme "genre (class)" is no longer used, since we have proper > categories now. So, for instance, "article (koma)" is now called "KOMA > Article". > I've noticed a lot of things that have changed since I did the original work in January. As I cannot access 2.1 files, and assuming no-one else has the time to do it before 2.1 comes out, that was why I was suggesting waiting until 2.1 and bringing everything up-to-date then. John --
